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  1. The Advances Behind The World's First Personalized CRISPR Treatment

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    ...impressive on a larger scale, too. The first paper reporting genome editing by CRISPR in mammalian cells appeared...reviewed in Lander, 2016). The first base editor was reported three years later in 2016 (Komor et al., 2016)...on one allele of his CPS1 gene, which could be repaired with an A→G edit on the complementary strand. ...enzyme requires a PAM sequence of NGG (where N represents any base), their engineered variants are more...
  2. Tips for Getting a Faculty Position

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    ...finer points of your techniques. You DO need to be prepared to know the literature of your field and all of...absolute minimum, can appreciate their research. Be prepared to discuss other people's research. Nothing turns...by email or in person. If you feel compelled to repay me in some way, I encourage you to help your friends...with their job searches. If you feel the urge to repay me personally, I will gratefully accept a very hoppy...
  3. Antibodies 101: Introduction to Gating in Flow Cytometry

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    ...), and width (W). The different measures are represented as FSC-A/SSC-A, FSC-H/SSC-H, or FSC-W/SSC-W, ...describe the shape of a histogram, which graphically represents the time and intensity of the cell’s illumination...cytometer (before you set the first gate) will be represented through FSC-A vs. SSC-A, so most people use that...scatter (FSC/SSC), the detected photons can be represented through a graph of photocurrent vs. time. The...
  4. The Fluorescent Vegetables in Aptamer Soup

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    ...Bunch of baby spinach, or BoBS, contains tandem repeats of Baby Spinach. It was developed in a study of...growth as RNA biology, we are looking forward to reports on the next additions to aptamer soup! References...fluorescent rna aptamer spinach2 for imaging of replication and immune-mediated changes in intracellular ...Spinach2 reveals the dynamic nature of trinucleotide repeat–containing RNA." Nature methods 10.12 (2013): 1219...
  5. Treating Muscular Dystrophy with CRISPR Gene Editing

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    ...often used for animal germline modification, to repair or add in disease-causing mutations, but, until...suited for genome editing. The homology-directed repair (HDR) pathway is downregulated in mature tissues...Although the three DMD studies referenced here represent a great step forward for CRISPR gene therapy, ... and Cystic Fibrosis Read How Homology Directed Repair is Used to Edit Genes Read How Non-Homologous End...
  6. Antibodies 101: The Basics of Western Blotting

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    ...addition, PVDF membranes can be repeatedly stripped of an antibody and reprobed with different antibodies allowing... (SDS-PAGE) is the first step of a western. To prepare the samples for SDS-PAGE, measure the protein content...control. In these cases, the western should be repeated.  Finally, while westerns are a useful way to ...
  7. FLEx Technology and Optogenetics: Flipping the switch on gene expression with high spatial and temporal resolution

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    ...infect defined neuronal subpopulations, and this represents a major downside in optogenetics (Belzung et ...gene (e.g., channelrhodopsin-2, ChR2) fused to a reporter gene (e.g., mCherry) to easily detect opsin-expressing...behaviors (de Jong et al., 2019). FLEx vectors represent, therefore, an ideal partner to optogenetics to...recombinase in mouse primary afferents." Scientific reports 8.1 (2018): 7321. PubMed PMID: 29743652. PubMed...
  8. How to Design Your gRNA for CRISPR Genome Editing

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    ...mutation, one generally relies on homology directed repair (HDR) to incorporate new information into DNA. ...cut site is >30nt from the proximal ends of the repair template (Yang et al., 2013). This means that, ...the authors note that “clonal heterogeneity may represent a more serious obstacle to the generation of truly...efficiency of CRISPR/dCas9-mediated transcriptional repression. Nucleic Acids Res 44:e141–e141 . https://doi.org...
  9. Typing CRISPR Systems

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    ...subtypes, A–C, with the beloved SpCas9 (from Streptococcus pyogenes) belonging in II-A. Cas9 was the first...adaptations for increased fidelity, activation/repression, high precision edits, and more. Figure...Schematic of the basic CRISPR-Cas9 mechanism, representing type II-A. Created with BioRender.com. ...efficiency when conducting edits using homology-directed repair. There are 10 subtypes of type V, named A–I and...
  10. Plasmids 101: Modular Cloning Applications and Kits

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    ...sub-cellular localization signals, plant markers, and reporters (Engler et al., 2014). This kit is a great starter...into a multi-TU targeting construct (Cas9, sgRNA, reporter, etc.). This allows for the multiplexing of sgRNAs...generic MoClo system for any given species can be repurposed for CRISPR applications (gene insert = Cas9 +...Multi-Kingdom Golden Gate Cloning Platform.” Scientific Reports, vol. 9, no. 1, Springer Science and Business Media...
  11. Live and Let Dye: Self-Labeling Protein Tags

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    ...Live-cell labeling strategies. The green structure represents a fluorophore or other useful ligand, gray structure... self-labeling tools: Tetracysteine: The first reported chemical labeling tag, from Roger Tsien’s lab ...self-labeling fusion tag based on the human DNA repair protein AGT that gets covalently linked to derivatives...collection. CLIP-tag: Also in 2008, Kai Johnsson’s lab reported another AGT-based tag named CLIP-tag, which reacts...
  12. Illuminating Choices: A Guide to Selecting Fluorescent Dyes and Ligands

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    ...ligand-binding assay. Scientific Reports, 6, 25769. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep25769  Grimm, J. B., & Lavis, ...ligands for dopamine D2/D3 receptors. Scientific Reports, 10(1), 21842. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020...mitochondrial dynamics in mammalian cells. Biophysics Reports, 3(4–6), 64–72. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41048-...
  13. CRISPR Cheat Sheet

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    ...Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats: Sequences of DNA found in bacteria that allow ...CRISPR can be used to cut the DNA sequence. With a repair template, CRISPR can be used to introduce a functional...deaminase can convert adenosine to inosine. Activate/Repress: Modified versions of CRISPR nucleases that can...
  14. Visualizing Your Plasmid Request Data

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    ...grant proposals or to demonstrate impact in annual reports. While the raw data is, of course, interesting ...data, including total requests, total countries represented by requestors, year of first reagent sent, year...and the source code is available in the Github repository (you can find the link in the upper right hand...
  15. 2018 #DeckTheLab Contest Winners

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    ...this time of year 😁 we stopped working on our reports/lab stuff for a few minutes to create this lovely...Matthew J. Sikora (@mjsikora) December 18, 2018 Fireplace from the Dyer Lab If you’re feeling as chilly ..., they turned one of the lab computers into a fireplace scene.  Got our @EmoryChem lab office looking...
  16. The Developmental Studies Hybridoma Bank: Over 25 Years of Antibody Sharing

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    ... Bank (DSHB), directed by David R. Soll, is a repository for monoclonal antibodies, distributing over ...against new cancer biomarkers. We believe that repositories, such as Addgene and the DSHB, play an important... to ensuring affordable access to materials, repositories provide standardized quality-control and technical...
  17. 500,000 Plasmids Shipped and Counting!

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    ...more scientists outside of the US now use the repository – about 50% of plasmids are shipped to labs outside...manage our website, and continue to improve the repository. We love being able to provide a useful (and ...being part of our growing community! Our plasmid repository succeeds because of our amazing community. The...
  18. Addgene's Website Update

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    ...two options: “Search Repository” and “Deposit Materials”. The “Search Repository” function is our same...Antibody of the Day!  Figure 4: The plasmid, viral prep, and antibody of the day While those are the biggest...
  19. Your Top Requested Plasmid in 2015!

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    ...We’ve dug into the data from our repository to find our most requested plasmid in 2015. In line with ...that the plasmid most requested from the Addgene repository in 2015 was... lentiCRISPR V2   LentiCRISPR...fantastic research tool has been requested from the repository nearly 1,000 times in 2015! If you haven’t already...
  20. A Conference By Postdocs For Postdocs: Future of Research

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    ...published on LinkedIn. Follow Addgene on LinkedIn for repository news and updates. Scientists must do science ...that too few of these trainees are sufficiently prepared during their 6-12+ (!) years of training to get... finding ways to provide new types of career preparedness training for their scientists. I have worked...
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